I can't recall the last edition of Cricket Captain where I didn't launch an England Test career, and this will be no exception. For me, Test cricket is the pinnacle, and being from Buckinghamshire, I don't have any real affinity with an English cricketing county. I will be continuing with my Mission Impossible save with Leicestershire and Ireland throughout the coming year - indeed, I'm well into that file in terms of matches played - but as far as my cricketing passion is concerned, English Test cricket is the top of my list, and so I have to start such a career again.
This time around, there's a genuine challenge to taking over the England Test side. We're sixth in the Test rankings, seven points behind India, and we have a huge five-Test series away in India to come in the winter months in early 2021. First, though, we have a couple of three-Test series to win - firstly against the West Indies, which of course comes to a conclusion in real life tomorrow, and secondly against Pakistan. We can gain a ranking point against Pakistan after the previous series against them ended in a 1-1 draw back in 2018, and of course, we suffered a humiliating 4-0 defeat on our last visit to India.
The challenge is to try and return England to the top of the Test rankings, and hopefully win the Test Championship as many times as possible in the seasons to come as well.
There's a lot of work to be done, so without further ado, lets get stuck into the West Indies series!
This time around, there's a genuine challenge to taking over the England Test side. We're sixth in the Test rankings, seven points behind India, and we have a huge five-Test series away in India to come in the winter months in early 2021. First, though, we have a couple of three-Test series to win - firstly against the West Indies, which of course comes to a conclusion in real life tomorrow, and secondly against Pakistan. We can gain a ranking point against Pakistan after the previous series against them ended in a 1-1 draw back in 2018, and of course, we suffered a humiliating 4-0 defeat on our last visit to India.
The challenge is to try and return England to the top of the Test rankings, and hopefully win the Test Championship as many times as possible in the seasons to come as well.
There's a lot of work to be done, so without further ado, lets get stuck into the West Indies series!
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